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Family Portrait Featured, Reviews Film Threat

LOCARNO FILM FESTIVAL 2023 REVIEW! Photographs etch the best occasions as visual memories – gatherings, events, or just crazy moments of laughter and joy. For what it’s worth, pictures like these, especially family photographs, are proof of familial bonds and…

Spy Kids: Armageddon Review: A Techno-Spy Adventure

In the world of cinema, it’s not uncommon for film franchises to spawn multiple sequels. Each new entry attempts to recapture the magic of the original, while bringing something new to the table. Spy Kids: Armageddon, the fifth installment in…

Spy Kids: Armageddon Review – Rodriguez Doesn’t Recapture Original Film’s Magic

Summary Spy Kids: Armageddon is a nostalgic installment in the franchise, meant to introduce a new generation of kids to the series. The film follows a familiar formula, with a new spy family and video game-themed plot, but lacks the…

Cord Jefferson’s ‘American Fiction’ With Jeffrey Wright Wins Toronto Film Fest Audience Award

Trends change and ebb and flow, but in years past, winning the Toronto International Film Festival audience award used to be a surefire way to mean you were getting an Oscar nomination for Best Picture and, and many instances, winning…

The Unraveling Featured, Reviews Film Threat

Director Kd Amond reteams with star Sarah Zanotti for the script to The Unraveling. Zanotti stars as Mary, who is happily married to Grayson (Sam Brooks). Suddenly, the couple is in a terrible car accident, leaving her with a traumatic…

‘Toll’ Review — Carolina Markowicz Fully Captures Brazilian Life

In its first five minutes, Toll does a great job of showcasing how life is for lower-class Brazilians. Waking up at the crack of dawn, contemplating a house in dire need of maintenance all around, running to catch a shuttle…

The Post Featured, Reviews Film Threat

In Justin Hunt’s thriller, The Post, the Sanders family is your typical Texas family, with the exception that Jett (Angus Benfield) and Brook’s (Kimberly Bigsby) son Jake (Zachariah West) is not a football player. This fact is important as one…

Olivia Colman And Jessie Buckley Spar In Diverting Little Triffle [TIFF]

“Wicked Little Letters” narrates the bizarre tale of several foul-mouthed anonymous letters that began terrorizing the small British town of Littlehampton in the 1920s. Against all odds, what might seem like a contrived, ridiculous story is almost entirely true. It…

‘Lost Ladies’ Review — Kiran Rao’s Social Commentary Has Heart

There are certain stories that only specific cultures are able to tell, and Lost Ladies (Laapataa Ladies) is certainly one of them. From its initial premise to character behavior and resolutions, the movie is very specific to Indian culture, but…

‘She Is Conann’ Review — A Wonderful ‘Conan the Barbarian’ Rehash

Barbarians, gore, glitter, time travel, humanoid hellhounds, toxic lesbians, and cannibalistic artists are some—but far from all—of the components in Bertrand Mandico’s avant-garde retelling of the Conan the Barbarian mythos. Like Mandico’s trippy sci-fi fantasy After Blue that disturbed Midnight…

The Holdovers Featured, Reviews Film Threat

TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2023 REVIEW! With films like Election, About Schmidt, Sideways, and Nebraska, Alexander Payne is a director who knows how to put character front and center, hire amazing actors, and have just enough levity and plot to…

Bobby Cannavale’s Formulaic Autism Dramedy Devolves Into A Pile Of Platitudes [TIFF]

Movies containing portrayals of autism haven’t always treated the subject with sensitivity and conviction. Some breakout successes like “Rain Man” have conflated it with the savant syndrome, which isn’t representative of the full spectrum of people with autism. Writer Tony…

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